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Dec 1, 2013

Pockets Full of Adventure, Dimensional Pants Hopping

What’s not to love here? The setting is great and straightforward, but
the cool mechanics is where this game really shines.

You take on the role of… someone, tasked by Keeton the Scientist to
travel to other dimensions through his pocket-portals and retrieve his stuff.

To crate your character, you grab a book and play a mad limb kind of
game. You choose some words from a page at random to complete this sentence: “You
can think of your PC as (Adjective) (Noun) with and (Item) who can (Verb)”. The
result is crazy and fun, trust me.

And the conflict resolution system has a nice twist in it. You play
cards to take actions, and discard them when hurt. Face cards can interrupt
another character’s action. It’s simple and fast, making action dynamic and
keeping the game moving.

Right now I should say that, on the “counter” thing, we made a house
rule as soon as we started playing. Following the written rules, to counter an action
you have to play a card of the same suit as the action card. We didn’t do that.
NPCs didn’t have normal skills (to much bookkeeping) and if you could only
counter with one suit, it limited your defenses. Instead, we forgot that rule.
The GM could play any card she wanted as an action, and one could counter with
a face of any suit. It worked great for us.

So, final “rating”: solid, fast and exiting game. You should definitely
give it a try.

Disclaimer: I didn’t upload any of the content in the following link. I
have downloaded and checked it as I always do. I have even executed it in my
own computer and did not experience any kind of problems. But I can’t ensure
that it is free of virus and/or malware that my anti-virus programs couldn’t
find. That’s the author’s responsibility.